picaro
noun
a rogue or vagabond.
picaros
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pluralof picaro.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In 1947, upon Gertrude Stein’s suggestion, Paul settled in Tangier, a seedy port city where artists, pirates, picaros, philistines, homosexuals, lapsed aristocrats, real aristocrats, and paupers posing as kings had found refuge for centuries.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2014
Philosophers abandoned their estates to contemplate natural and divine things, the movements of the heavens, with less distraction; picaros do it to sow all their wild oats.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Robert S. Rudder
Philosophers despised those things as vain and transitory; while picaros don't care for them because they bring along cares and work—something that goes against their profession.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Robert S. Rudder
The only difference is that philosophers gave up all they had for their love of that kind of life, and picaros find it without giving up anything.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Robert S. Rudder
Then it must have proceeded from one of the picaros behind the rock.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
